On Friday night, a 22-year-old drove through a popular night spot in the college town of Santa Barbara and started shooting, after having stabbed three people at his apartment. Six people were killed and 13 more were injured. (Update: He killed four men and two women.) The gunman did not survive the evening, though he lives on in digital form due to online postings and videos, including a YouTube video titled "Elliot Rodger's Retribution" in which he explains that he is wreaking vengeance on the hot girls of Santa Barbara because women had rejected him for 8 years, since he hit puberty. He expresses anger in the chilling video that he is still a virgin despite being "the perfect guy." "I don't know why you girls have never been attracted to me, but I will punish you all for it," he says, sitting behind the wheel of his BMW.

Rodger left behind over a dozen YouTube videos that an Internet audience stunned by his murderous actions have been watching and commenting on

Of course, perfect guys are not the type who go mass-murderer on a college town. Rodger, who was a student at Santa Barbara City College, had uploaded a number of videos in recent months about his loneliness and frustration over women not wanting him despite his BMW, $300 sunglasses and nice clothing. He had expressed similar sentiments on forums for bodybuilders and anti-pick-up-artists. The latter led a Daily Kos writer to blame the "men's rights movement" for influencing Rodgers into psychopathy and murder, pointing to the fact that Rodgers had subscribed to three different YouTube channels that gave advice on how to pick up women and be an "alpha male." "Rather than seeking mental help for some obvious issues, he sought out the Men's Rights Movement," writes Will McLeod under the handle OllieGarkey. "He internalized their hatred of women."

This is severe oversimplification, and an overly rapid rush to judgment. Rodger's hatred -- of both men and women -- seemed tied instead to narcissism, jealousy, feelings of privilege and the world owing him. His mental disturbance seems as much about class as gender warfare.

Rodger was obsessed with himself, and with putting his lifestyle on display on Facebook

Rodger's Facebook page is full of selfies and photos of his rich but lonely life. There are photos of him, by himself, flying first class and attending a private Katy Perry concert, and with his parents, at the Hunger Games premiere in 2012; his father was an assistant director of the film. Friends are generally absent from the photos and make few comments; he likes many of his own photos, and is usually the only one to do so. He was obsessed with himself and with putting his opulent lifestyle on display, and Facebook was the perfect outlet for it.

YouTube on the other hand was where Rodger expressed his despair, in video after video "vlogging" the unfairness of the world and his not having a woman in his. In one video, he sits in his car, his camera trained on a couple at the beach, while he laments how lonely their togetherness makes him feel. Rodger favorited more Pokemon videos on YouTube than PUA (pick-up artist) ones; the most disturbing favorites I saw in his YouTube videos were eight minutes of the gory Game Of Thrones "Red Wedding" episode and Philosophy of the Knife, a graphic film about Japanese torture during World War II. Thrown in among the video game and cartoon videos, they almost seem planted for dramatic effect. One of the few videos he made with other people in it -- that he's not stalking -- is from a July 4, 2011 party, taken at a table next to the pool at a luxurious home. It is just 26 seconds of Rodger silently filming other people talking and eating, ending with the person next to Rodger flicking him off, jokingly.

Contrary to the Daily Kos claim, Rodger was getting mental help. His parents reportedly saw his dozens of YouTube videos -- of him wandering alone or sitting in his car complaining about the world's unfairness, his loneliness and a desire for vengeance -- and were concerned enough to report them to police, their lawyer tells ABC News. He was being treated by multiple therapists, according to the lawyer, and had been diagnosed as "a high-functioning patient with Asperger syndrome." Update: This diagnosis was later retracted.

No, life is so unfair because a person like Rodger would go on a murderous rampage because he feels slighted by women

Rather than the bodybuilding and anti-PUA communities simply supporting his world views, many challenged them in the conversations I reviewed, all of which have removed from those forums but are available in cached form. "If you could release a virus that would kill every single man on Earth, except for yourself because you would have the antidote, would you do it?," he asked in an April 2013 thread on Puahate.com. "If you were ugly, you'd still be incel," responded one forum user referring to the group's term for "involuntary celibate." "Women would just have kids by using sperm banks." Another said he'd destroy the virus and get women by being the hero. Yes, there are ugly attitudes toward women, with one person saying they'd be too stupid to realize they could break into the sperm banks, but it's not the majority.

On a forum on BodyBuilding.com, users were even more confrontational. When Rodger complained this month about seeing a "short, ugly Indian guy driving a Honda civic [with] a hot blonde girl in his passenger seat," other users responded to say that he was racist, that his jealously was ugly and that the secret to getting girls was to "be fun to be around" not to have money and a BMW. A user who went by the handle dtugg was especially critical of Rodger. He had apparently seen Rodger's YouTube videos. "I see you got rid of those serial killer-esc videos on Youtube," he wrote. Rodger responded saying his parents made him take them down, but that he planned to repost them. "I'm not trying to be mean, but the creepy vibe that you give off in those videos is likely the major reason that you can't get girls," responded dtugg.

In another thread, a user confronted him for saying that "women [prioritizing] brute strength just shows that their minds haven't fully evolved," given that he was obsessed with pursuing beautiful women himself. "So it's perfectly acceptable when you are drawn to indicators of evolutionary fitness, but when women do it it's because they are not fully evolved," the user responded with a gif of Jennifer Lawrence mouthing, "OK" (not knowing that Rodgers may have actually met the Hunger Games star).

Users on that thread from a week ago seemed to recognize just how mentally disturbed Rodger might be. One told him to "get out of auschwitz mode." (Update: I'm informed this is bodybuilder lingo condemning Rodger's skinniness not his mental state.) Another said Rodger reminded him of the serial killer in American Psycho: "Dude seriously channels Patrick Bateman (the film one, portrayed by Christian Bale)... Narcissistic, superficial, intense, angry, supremely unfulfilled."

Now people are flocking to Rodger's YouTube channel to watch his videos and make critical comments, though YouTube has pulled his Retribution video saying it "violates YouTube's TOS." (YouTube will have to make a decision about whether to keep the other videos up.) People are getting a disturbing look into what was going through this murderer's mind due to his digital archive and will make decisions about who or what to blame. There's a certain sickness in that, but it's the same impulse that leads us to look at car crashes as we drive by them. Except this is a murderous car crash that's strewn across the Internet and Google-able.

In a better world, there would be nothing to see. The commenters challenging and therapists treating a privileged young man who felt unloved would have been able to change his deranged mind. And he would never have been able to get the gun that allowed him to murder innocent people.

Update: Rodger also authored a 141-page autobiography titled "My Twisted World," which was sent to a local news station. He describes the events of his life since birth, blaming an obsession with World of Warcraft for lack of social development in middle and early high school; blaming his father for not teaching him how to woo women; blaming his mother for not re-marrying into the rich, upper class after his parents separated; and blaming his own social awkwardness for getting in the way of his making friends and meeting women. Despite his seemingly-affluent lifestyle, he felt less rich than and inferior to others in the circles in which he traveled, lamenting that his father was not a more successful director. In college, he starts playing the Megamillions Lottery obsessively, spending hundreds of dollars at a time in the hopes of becoming a multi-millionaire, which he thinks will allow him to finally "get a woman." He visited a shooting range for the first time at age 21 after he failed to win the lottery when there was a $120 million jackpot.

He expresses jealousy of people in sexual relationships; he seems more hateful of and angry at specific men -- friends and social acquaintances -- than at particular women. Women are vaguer to him, objects of desire; he sees them as both superior to him and inferior at the same time. The jealousy gets more and more deranged as the manifesto goes on. As he becomes a fan of Game of Thrones, he expresses a desire to a friend to "flay" a couple he sees in a mall food court; he seems especially enraged when men of other races are dating white women. (This despite his being of a mixed background; his father is British and his mother is Malaysian).

He feels the jealousy and sadness that all of us feel at some point when we are alone, without a romantic partner, except his loneliness manifests as a desire to cause violence for people who are happy. He starts acting out by spilling beverages on people he dislikes: coffee on a couple making out in a Starbucks, ice tea on a couple he saw in a mall whom he followed with his car. When he was 20, after two women at a bus stop didn't smile back at him when he drove by, he turned his car around and splashed them with his Starbucks latte, taking pleasure in it staining their jeans, driving away quickly before they could get his license plate. And months later, when he spotted a happy group of "popular college kids" -- "typical fraternity jocks, tall and muscular" and "beautiful blonde girls" -- playing kickball in a park, he went to a K-mart and bought a Supersoaker, which he filled with orange juice and sprayed them, driving away when they chased him, an ominous foreshadowing of the devastation he would wreak later with a real gun.

At 21, he called his parents ranting about his loneliness and virginity. They insisted he see a psychiatrist. The next month, he bought his first gun.

He writes that he discovered PUAHate.com -- the anti-pick-up-artist site -- in the Spring of 2013 and that many people there "shared [his] hatred of women [but] would be too cowardly to act on it" and that the site "confirmed his theories about how wicked and degenerate women really are." He had already started having violent thoughts and planning his "day of retribution" before visiting the site. He was seeing a psychiatrist as well as a series of "counselors," who were supposed to essentially act as friends and help him socialize, but Rodger's deranged jealousy was such that it only made him more distraught when women were attracted to his counselor and though he bonded with a female counselor, she moved away, and he didn't want another because it felt like prostitution to hire a woman to spend time with him. The psychiatrist prescribed Risperidone, an anti-psychotic drug, but Rodger refused to take it after Googling it.

During a last ditch effort to lose his virginity at 21 in the fall of 2013, he got drunk and went to a party, but he wound up getting violent and trying to push people off a ledge. He wound up getting pushed instead, and beaten, and broke his leg. The rest of his story is increasingly bitter and psychotic as he plans his "Day of Retribution," including plans to lure people to his house and torture them in the style of Theon Greyjoy, though he does not actually name the Game of Thrones character. We all know how the story ends. Most of his YouTube videos were filmed during that time. Someone actually saw them and reported them leading police to be sent to Rodger's apartment. He reassured the police that he was fine, and they left, but he notes that if they had searched his room, "they would have ended everything."

*Edited to add information about stabbing deaths that occurred at Rodger's apartment.